I'm Chris Naka, and I'm Sarah Wyman, Dolan Thoris, who's on vacation.

And that is why we are turning this into a bird sound podcast.

It's a northern water thrush that shows on the Merlin.

We're one for Merlin.

Oh yeah, totally.

So we're hearing myself and my wife Aiden birding in Prospect Park,

which is something that we've been doing for the past two years,

and have done a lot over the summer.

But the audio is recorded by an app called Merlin.

Everything is here.

It's like a murderer's row.

Blackpull warbler, Pranathurim over the chestnut-sided warbler,

Blackburnian warbler, American Red Star.

Oh, we want to see the Blackburnian.

We'd are all of these birds like sitting on the same branch?

No, but they were within audio range.

So the app that the text birds by their call will show you little photo icons

of all the birds that it hears when you have it turned on.

So all the birds that I listed are birds that are somewhere within,

like, hearing range of the microphone on my phone.

I feel like this is an amazing cross between like Shazam and Pokemon Go for birds.

It really is, it's Shazam for birds.

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